Temporary Archive: Suzanne Brockmann's Message Board

you have to have operated. So, though you can get your Trident in 10 months, most people would not consider you an operator until after you have done at least one deployment. That is an 18 month or 12 month work up plus 6 months. I am a snob, I think that an operator is only a person who has conducted combat operations and is likely to in the future---I, for instance, am no longer an operator--symantics but symantics are important